Bookholder



Patented July 7, 1925.

um-TED,STATES- HAT]; T1oFF ALEX N ER L. cHALMERs', or LOS ANGELES,CALIFORNIA.

BOOKHOLDEB.

Applicationfiled February 24, 1923.." Serial No. 620,952.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER MoL. CHALMERs, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and Stateof California, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inBookholders, of which'the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription, reference being had to drawings.

This invention relates to book holderssuch as are employed forholdingsmall books,

pamphlets, sheet music, etc., in a convenient position to be read orstudied;

The general ob ect of the invention is to provide an improved form ofbook holder which, while simple in construction, nevertheless Wlll holdan opened book ina secure manner.

One of t-he'specitic objectsof-my inven-ftion is to provide abook holderwhich may be madetof bent metal, and wherein the holder body has means.iDCOI'POL'HtGCl therewith so that the book will be held'at the top'andbottom with the leaves unobst-ructe An additional objec-t'of thisinvention is to provide a book holder, so constructed that the book onwhich the holder isv secured can be closed without removing the holder;

A further object of the invention is to provide a book holder. havinglocking members at the sides thereof for holding the leaves of the book,the members being operable, by a sliding action, to locking position. I

Further objectsot the invention will be apparent from the following,description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, whereinFig.1 is'a plan view of a book holder showing my invention; F ig.

2 is a perspective view showing the holder applied to a book; Fig. 3-18-2111 end view showing the holder in folded position with a pamphletthereon; Fig. 4 is a fragmentary detail showing the pintle; F ig.- 5 isan elevation of the clip. 7 Figs. 6 and 7 are elevations showing detailsof the means for supportingthe bookholder, and Fig. 8 is fragmentaryelevation of the end portion of the pintle. Fig. 9' is an enlargedsection through 99 of Fig. 6. I I 1 Referring to the drawing byreference characters, I have'shown a book holder at 10 as comprising aplurality of holdingmembers 11 11 which may be similar in ever respect.The members'll are provided at their inner end with eyes l2, whichreceive the accompanying the book inserted.

- wherein it will be noted 22 isv received between the spaced parts 25of the clip 24, so that the latter is prevented free to turn when ateither a pintle pin 14. The pintle pin 14 is pro- 7 vided with an eye 15at its upper end, so that holder may be held upon a nail or othermember.

Each of the holding members 11 is indicated as provided with outwardlyextending loops .17 at the top and bottom and through the openingsprovided by the loops the leaves of the book or pamphlet 18 may be Otherloops 20 are indicated as arranged on the side portions of the holderwith the intermediate portion 21 of this projection flattened,'as at 22,and provided with a recess 23 in the flattened portion. vThis flattenedposition.

This clip 24 is shown part serves to hold a clip 24 in in detail in Fig.5, that the. flat portion from turning when the clip is moved towardsthe center :fromeither side. The clip 24 is side of the center. Theportion 26 is adapted to engage the back of the book or pamphlet whilethe prong 27 is intended to temporarily hold anycleaves of the bookwhich may be desired to be used at times. 7 v r It will be noted thatthe sections 11 are identical in shape. The portions constituting theeyes 1.2 are-preferably arranged so that these portions are at rightangles to the pintle 14 when the parts are assembled as shown in Fig. 1.Y

In order that ,the book holder may serve as an easel, I show an arm 30as secured to the pintle 14 adjacent-the upper portion of the latter.The arm 30 is'preferablyofresilient metal and may preferably .be square'in crosssection. The pintle 14, it is likewise to be noted, is alsopreferably square. A

sliding sleeve 32 surrounds boththe pintle and the arm'and in theposition shown in Fig. 7 this sleeve 32 is raiscd'to allow the arm;30 tospring out away from the pintle and support the bookholder, while inFig. 6 the sleeve 32 is moved toward the bottom of the pintle 14, thisaction causing the arm 30 to hug the pintle 14, with the lower por tionof the arm, which may be an eye, arranged adjacent the portion 33 at thebottom part of the book holder.

By referring to Fig. 4 it will be noted that the'lower portion of thepintle 14 is indicated as bent back upon itself in a manner arrangementis tiat when the parts 11 are opened wide as shown in Fig. 8 theportions 12 adjacent the eyes 12 engage the pintle 141 to preventfurther movement. It will thus be see-n that it is impossible to foldthe book holder marker in the wrong direction, thus preventing breakingthe backof the book.

In order that the eye may remain in the plane of the portions 11 and notproject when theparts are folded I now prefer to spot weld the lower eyemember 12 to the pintle 14 as shown at 10 Fig. 4:. Movement between theportion 11 of the holder at the left in Fig. 1 is accordingly preventedwhile the portion 11 at the right in Fig. 1 is free to move from theopen to the closed position.

In using my device, a book is laid upon the holder with the center ofthe back of the book adjacent the pintle and over the latter. The leavesof the book are then thrust through the opening provided by the loops1717, thus bringing the leaves adjacent the fastener 24:, which is thenturned to position to hold the leaves.

This book holder is primarily intended for the use of persons who haveoccasion to study three or more pages of a book and in order that morethan the two fronting pages may be available for reading, I provide theprojections 27 on the front of the clip. The pages not in use, but whichmay be desired for use, are slipped under the projections 27 and maythus be retainec.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. The combination holder, said holder including a pintle member and apair of leaf-engaging members secured to the pintle member, saidleaf-engaging members comprising bent metal strips, a portion of whichengage the outside part of the cover of the book, the remaining portionengaging the leaves of the book and means in the portion which engagesthe leaves of the book and adapted to engage the cover for securing theholder on the book.

2. The combination of a book and a book holder including a pintle memberand a pair of leaf-engaging members secured to the pintle member, saidleaf-engaging members comprising metal strips, a portion of which engagethe back of the book and a portion engage the front of the book,leaf-engaging hooks on said holder and movable to locking position tohold a leaf firmly, means whereby said bookholder may be closed with thebook thereon and additional means preventing said book being foldeduntil the covers touch.

3. A book holder having a pintle member and a pair of leaf-engagingmembers secured to the pintle member, said leaf-engaging memberscomprising bent metal strips having outwardly directed portions at thetop of a book and a book and bottom and having an outwardly di: rectedportion at each side, leaf-engaging hooks on said side portions movableto looking position-to hold a leaf firmly, said pin tle being soarranged that the book may be closed with the holder thereon andadditional means preventing said book holder from closing in an oppositedirection, means for hanging said bookholder upon a wall, other meansforming a support for the bookholder when set upon the table, includingan arm and a clip for holding said arm against the pintle member, saidclip also serving to hold said arm spaced from the pintle member.

45. A bookholder comprising a pair of leaf-engaging members, a pintlemember to which one of said leaf-engaging members is aflixed and aboutwhich the other member turns, an eye at one end of the'pintle membersaid eye being arranged in a plane parallel to the plane of the memberto which the pintle is aiiixed and a book clamping device mounted oneach, of the leaf-engaging members.

5. A book holder including a pintle member and a pair of holding memberssecured to the pintle member, said holding members comprising bentstrips having means thereon for engaging a book, a support for holdingthe book holder upright upon a table, said support including a flexiblemember mounted adjacent the top of the book holder, a sliding sleevemounted on the holder and engaging said support, said sleeve beingarranged to hold the support adjacent the pintle when not in use.

6. The combination of a book and a book holder including a pintle memberand a pair of leaf-engaging members secured to the pintle member, saidleaf-engaging members comprising strips which engage the back and thefront of the book leaf'holding devices on said holder, said devicescomprising bent metal hooks slidable on the leafengaging members and alocking lug forholding each of said hooks in position. i

7, The combination of a book holder and a book, said holder comprisingtwo hinged members arranged to fold together, each of said memberscomprising a single length of material bent to engage the front and backof the book, means for engaging the book carried by each of saidmembers, said means comprising bent metal devices mounted to slide onsaid members to locking position, said devices having a hook forengaging the back of the book to hold the latter on the holder andhaving a prong for engaging the leaves of the book.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto aflix my signature.

A. MCL. cnaLMEns.

